Shoe-dauber.



PATENTED JUNE 11, 1907.

R. E. SAFFOLD.

SHOE DAUBER.

APPLICATION FILED mm; 13, 1906.

1% in use:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REUBEN E. SAFFOLD, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

SHOE-DAUBER.

To all whmn it may concern.-

Be it known that I, REUBEN E. SAFFOLD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe- Daubers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descri tion of the invention, such as will enab ie others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to daubers for applying polish to shoes and other articles, has for its object economy in the polish used, and consists in a dauber havinga lurality of surfaces for applyin polish, an rotatably mounted so that the surfaces are interchangeable, to provide a new or clean surface, as one becomes clogged or filled with paste The invention will be fully disclosed in the following specification and claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification Figure 1 re resents a pers ective of my improved dau er. Fig. 2 a 1i e view of the supporting member detached, and Fig. 3 an end view of the body of the dauber.

Reference bein had to the drawin s and the designating c aracters thereon, t e numeral 1 indicates the block or body of the dauber, preferably made of wood and having sides 2, of which there may be any preferred number. In each end 2 of the body, is an aperture 3, and grooves 4, one for each side 2, and in the form of the body shown, they radiate from the center, and the vertical and the transverse grooves are at a right angle to each other.

5 is a cover, preferably of a flufiytextile material to take up the polish from a box and apply it to a shoe or other article.

6 indicates a supporting member, provided with resilient arms 7, which are normally separated or open at 8 and are outwardly bent at a right angle to the arms 7, at 9, forming members 10 and then bent forward forming horizontal members 11, then bent downward at a right angle to the members 11, forming members 12, which engage the grooves .4 in the ends of the body 1, and then bent inward forming members 13 which extend into the a ertures 3 to support the body 1, .and on w 'ch the bod is rotatably mounted. On the arms 7 of t e supporting member is an adjustable clamping ring 14,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 13,1906. Serial No. 321,554.

Patented June 11, 1907.

which secures the members 12 in the grooves 4, when the ring is pushed forward into the position shown in Fig. 1, and prevents rotation of the dauber on its supporting mem-, ber. To further secure the dauber against rotation when in use, the members 11 bear on the upper surface of the dauber when in use, as s own in Fig. 1. The daubing surfaces 15 are thus. made interchangeable. and as one surface becomes clo 'ged or filled with polish, the ring 14 is moved back on the arms 7, as shown in Fig. 2, when the arms separate at 8, and the dauber is then rotated on the members 13, to bring a new or fresh surface 15 into osition for use, when the ring 14 is again pus ed out on the arms 7 and the dauber clamped between the members 12, 12.

The dauber as shown is approximately square, having four equal fiat and four sided polishing surfaces, which absorb or take up the olish evenly all over the surface thereof in t e box, instead of in the center of the box as with the use of a round dauber, thus effecting economy in the use of the polish.

Having thus fully disclosed my invention, what I claim is 1. A shoedauber having a plurality of interchangeable daubing surfaces, and provided wit grooves in its ends, a supporting member having resilient arms engaging the grooves in the ends of the dauber, and a clampin -ring on the supporting member.

2. A s oe-dauber having a plurality of interchangeable daubing surfaces, and provided with radial grooves in its ends, a supporting member having resilient arms engaging said grooves, and provided with inturne ends on which the dauber rotates, and a clamping-ring on the supporting mem- REUBEN E. SAFFOLD.

Witnesses J AooB' A. Rrrz, JAMES BAILEY. 

